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and i don't use any additional security. i will say i am aware, and when i feel that the threat level rises, i do what i have to do to protect myself and my family, and my deepest wish is that people debate, they disagree, solve problems, and my philosophy, i will debate and then go out and have a beer with you. that's how die my bar gapping and associations. >> what has surprised you most about washington, dc. >> that's easy. >> you laugh. what is surprising the most is i travel -- i'm the luckiest guide in the world. no doubt. and i am blessed to be a united states senator. aside from the birth of my kids and my marriage, nothing i'm more proud of. is a travel around the world, around this country, you know what they talk about overseas? from the prime ministers and the presidents and business leaders, down to the poorest farmer pushing a cart, talk about jobs, and since i've been in the united states senate until we got back, we spent 12-15 days talking about nothing do with jobs. we're in the middle of a two-year recessi
and i don't use any additional security. i will say i am aware, and when i feel that the threat level rises, i do what i have to do to protect myself and my family, and my deepest wish is that people debate, they disagree, solve problems, and my philosophy, i will debate and then go out and have a beer with you. that's how die my bar gapping and associations. >> what has surprised you most about washington, dc. >> that's easy. >> you laugh. what is surprising the most is i...
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there was recently a controversy about huck finn and the use of the "n" word. and there was a professor who took it out of the text. and this sparked a controversy about sanitizing american history or in the context of my own book, sort of politically-correct speech code and how inappropriate it was given the fact that mark twain, samuel clemens, wrote it with the power of that word intended. so i wanted to take a look at what the sanitized, if you will, text looks like. so i picked up that book. again that is sitting on my desk. and then there are two books, i'm trying to remember their names, and i, such an opportunity to help out authors that i'm reading but one is a book by lawrence block, who is a mystery writer. and i think it is called, "a drop of the hard stuff". it is a mystery novel. and lawrence block, to me just a terrific, terrific mystery writer. that is actually at the top of my list. if i wasn't hear tonight i would go read lawrence block. yeah, i think lawrence block is terrific. and george peliconis who is a mystery writers writes about myster
there was recently a controversy about huck finn and the use of the "n" word. and there was a professor who took it out of the text. and this sparked a controversy about sanitizing american history or in the context of my own book, sort of politically-correct speech code and how inappropriate it was given the fact that mark twain, samuel clemens, wrote it with the power of that word intended. so i wanted to take a look at what the sanitized, if you will, text looks like. so i picked...
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the us is now them. but this tracks the thinking of many people in corporate america and firms like general electric where chris townsend has the pleasure of dealing with the hour verizon that i have dealt with that try to confine us to the past rhetorically with the constant repetition -- repetition and references to legacy contracts and benefits and the latter of which we are told no longer affordable in the private or public sector. where we seem to be headed where him in cairo by the lake in wisconsin, a brother bob university of wisconsin probably about on twitter the great labor journalists just returned from madison some hopefully we get reports from a little bit later. anybody else? we have a bunch of out of state cheerleaders now vice the is now called the chatter revolution. [laughter] now on this particular tour those at haymarket although they have been saddled with the name from two centuries ago, it came up with the subtitle birth of a new workers' movement or death throes of the old?" very
the us is now them. but this tracks the thinking of many people in corporate america and firms like general electric where chris townsend has the pleasure of dealing with the hour verizon that i have dealt with that try to confine us to the past rhetorically with the constant repetition -- repetition and references to legacy contracts and benefits and the latter of which we are told no longer affordable in the private or public sector. where we seem to be headed where him in cairo by the lake...
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and i just remember bill used to where saddle shoes. anyway, sweaters. he walks and very gangly young man. after a few weeks after an hour high-school. there were just a few of us that were almost all going our way to get time on the terminal. there were a few. at the end of the month there would post up the kind of a or a finalist of how much money you had run up. bill and i were always up there at the top. you think, how do i explain $68 on the time share? so that was always anxiety provoking. >> how about the day when you saw the article in popular mechanics, 1974. >> popular electronics. >> the site. actually, that magazine, check out the revolutionaries of it. this museum is basically the first two dozen years of computing. that museum has blown up. we will was the feeling like when you saw the magazine? >> right. it was a feeling of vindication. i had been telling bill for a long time, we should be doing a basic interpreter, basic language interpreter for microprocessor chip. first we actually build a machine based on the 8,000 microprocessor chips
and i just remember bill used to where saddle shoes. anyway, sweaters. he walks and very gangly young man. after a few weeks after an hour high-school. there were just a few of us that were almost all going our way to get time on the terminal. there were a few. at the end of the month there would post up the kind of a or a finalist of how much money you had run up. bill and i were always up there at the top. you think, how do i explain $68 on the time share? so that was always anxiety...
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i researched using interval research. people here from an earlier. >> it's not around anymore. >> not around anymore. it was a wonderful experience. in terms of starter companies that came out of it directly, very, very modest success. but some great and interesting things. so there is litigation you mentioned. again, the attention comes about. a well-known individual. everybody knows every other big, you know, hellhound. >> this one basically was like the entire enchant. this that is what happened on twitter. >> i am. >> but from your perspective are as curious. basically saying, you know, to you think in many ways he had been to a head? >> too early. so if you're early. if there and say, wait a minute. no one else is doing this. i'm fine. there are some things inherent in whenever the technology might be or the management team or a bunch of reasons that you're earlier idea is not going to take root. your way to relief. he have to be cognizant of those factors. >> which companies would you invest on if you could? [laught
i researched using interval research. people here from an earlier. >> it's not around anymore. >> not around anymore. it was a wonderful experience. in terms of starter companies that came out of it directly, very, very modest success. but some great and interesting things. so there is litigation you mentioned. again, the attention comes about. a well-known individual. everybody knows every other big, you know, hellhound. >> this one basically was like the entire enchant. this...
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ones who helped us up and actually gave us a break in our lives and encouraged us and gave the encouragement and the direction we needed when absolutely no one else would. it would be worth the trouble coming and i know better than to think that any good thing in my life was preordained. i know that. and i've come this far only because long ago a few people in my life thought it was actually worth the trouble. and thank goodness for that. he said the man, quote, didn't base his rating on games won or lost, but on the record of the player in later life. what kind of man he had become. i had a couple of coaches like that his influence as i can still feel today. i still have a relationship mentors in my life today. and i found the sick be the cadiz and work ethic and and forced it on a daily basis. it toughened up my game and they gave me confidence to play with the best and to never, ever let the other team inside my head those are the strengths that will serve you well in any line of work. that will come in handy if you are a republican running for the political office in massachusetts. [laug
ones who helped us up and actually gave us a break in our lives and encouraged us and gave the encouragement and the direction we needed when absolutely no one else would. it would be worth the trouble coming and i know better than to think that any good thing in my life was preordained. i know that. and i've come this far only because long ago a few people in my life thought it was actually worth the trouble. and thank goodness for that. he said the man, quote, didn't base his rating on games...
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very few people use them. the number of people who have used them are people who are terminal within six months and who number in the hundreds. many who went through the process of applying for this didn't do it. most people are not going to commit suicide under any circumstances. but i believe that for people who are in unbearable pain, it is a rational choice, and i don't agree at all that everybody who wants to commit suicide is irrational or depressed and i think this is part of patronizing i don't deny for a minute that there are some people who are depressed for example i will give you an example of people who are depressed, there are people who in the 60's and 70's or even when they receive a diagnosis of something like say multiple sclerosis or parkinson's which you're eventually going to die out but unlike say alzheimer's or very old forms of cancer they're manageable and treatable and you can have a meaningful life for a long time. they are not a death sentence, but there are people who will treat th
very few people use them. the number of people who have used them are people who are terminal within six months and who number in the hundreds. many who went through the process of applying for this didn't do it. most people are not going to commit suicide under any circumstances. but i believe that for people who are in unbearable pain, it is a rational choice, and i don't agree at all that everybody who wants to commit suicide is irrational or depressed and i think this is part of patronizing...
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ordinary as it seems to us today, pre-adulthood is something very new. up until recently the central fact about a woman in her 20s and early 30s was that she was a wife and mother. that was the case whether she was a 23-year-old from ming china or a 26-year-old and america. in fact, most people in their 20s were not single and if they were, they were not living with roommates in williamsburg, brooklyn or dupont circle and drinking shots of mimosas with other pre-adults on weekends. they were married and they had children and they often had cars whose oil needed changing. now let's look at the numbers. in 1970 the average age of marriage for men was 23. and for women, a little less than 21. today, it is 26 and 28 but that is a little bit misleading actually. because the numbers for college-educated and even those with some graduate school education are considerably higher. for women, the average age is about 27. for women with a masters or professional degree, it is about 30. now this means that we have a historically high percentage of single people in t
ordinary as it seems to us today, pre-adulthood is something very new. up until recently the central fact about a woman in her 20s and early 30s was that she was a wife and mother. that was the case whether she was a 23-year-old from ming china or a 26-year-old and america. in fact, most people in their 20s were not single and if they were, they were not living with roommates in williamsburg, brooklyn or dupont circle and drinking shots of mimosas with other pre-adults on weekends. they were...
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can you take us back to that moment when you were in tenth grade. this was lakeside in north seattle. what was it like? what was the thing that you thought this guy is interesting? >> guest: there are pictures of bill and be together -- there are some examples in the museum. but they are not hot. that could probably be fixed. i just remember bill wearing saddle shoes and a sweater. he walks in very gamely and man young man and this was at our high school. there were a few of us almost elbowing our way to get time on the terminal and bill was one of them and a few others. at the end of the month they would post a horrifying list of how much money would run up on a time share. bill and i were at the top. how will i explained my parents $68 of time sharing? that was always anxiety provoking. >> host: what about today you saw that article in popular mechanics? that magazine, check out the revolutionaries exhibit. the first two thousand years of computing. really interesting. the magazine is blown up downstairs. what was that feeling like when you saw th
can you take us back to that moment when you were in tenth grade. this was lakeside in north seattle. what was it like? what was the thing that you thought this guy is interesting? >> guest: there are pictures of bill and be together -- there are some examples in the museum. but they are not hot. that could probably be fixed. i just remember bill wearing saddle shoes and a sweater. he walks in very gamely and man young man and this was at our high school. there were a few of us almost...
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>> there are very few of us. it was time to share our story because history today is slanted towards the agenda, hand in these 47 years, not on solid piece of evidence of the
>> there are very few of us. it was time to share our story because history today is slanted towards the agenda, hand in these 47 years, not on solid piece of evidence of the
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and it was interesting, she would always use the plural, we. we did that in referring to herself and paul. because, i think, of the enormous debt of gratitude she felt she owed him. >> how did you get interested in this genre, you know, this historical genre? >> you know, that's a good question. you know, i'm from a war family. my grandfather, james b. coin a minute, was the president of harvard when world war ii, in the early days of world war ii, and he was appointed by president roosevelt to be one of the men that led the organization of the manhattan project and the development of the bomb. so i grew up in the far east and in cambridge surrounded by wartime scientists and politicians and the men that led the war effort. and so i think i got hooked on war stories at an early age, i got hooked on war movies at an early age, and it just stuck. >> what other books have you written? >> i wrote a book called "tuxedo park," and that was about a group of physicists who congregated in a secret laboratory in tuxedo park, new york, and began experimen
and it was interesting, she would always use the plural, we. we did that in referring to herself and paul. because, i think, of the enormous debt of gratitude she felt she owed him. >> how did you get interested in this genre, you know, this historical genre? >> you know, that's a good question. you know, i'm from a war family. my grandfather, james b. coin a minute, was the president of harvard when world war ii, in the early days of world war ii, and he was appointed by president...
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see how many people use the message. how many for those ads of eyeballs? naysay certain elements of the tv audience are more important than other elements. not all eyes are equal. that is why you hear from 18 through 34 crowd. if you think of that it makes no sense. by and large a dose are living in mom and dad's basement smoking dope and being unemployed. there in that age group but the fact is that people who are 50 and above are the only ones in the country who are retiring now this is an aging country that is baby boomer dads the leading network in terms of revenue is cbs. have you ever watched of cbs show? one? nobody watches and cis under 41 of the highest rated shows on television because cbs brings in the dough but the tv executives have skin the advertisers to believe none of those people matter. they have lied to the advertisers. why? originally three major networks in the late '60s and abc only had no affiliate's and cbs had affiliate's ever were with all of the top shows with the "beverly hillbillies" and pet
see how many people use the message. how many for those ads of eyeballs? naysay certain elements of the tv audience are more important than other elements. not all eyes are equal. that is why you hear from 18 through 34 crowd. if you think of that it makes no sense. by and large a dose are living in mom and dad's basement smoking dope and being unemployed. there in that age group but the fact is that people who are 50 and above are the only ones in the country who are retiring now this is an...
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liberties were given to us by a creator. was not to create them. i don't know how far he would go on the creator aspect but otherwise i would agree with that. i think as he says he's in the business of judging and when you are facing a court doctrine of cases that cover the gamut you have to have a basis of principle and what we try to do because we are writing for a broad audience is to draw off some of those cases those kind of things for example one of his most famous remarks there is only one due process clause of the constitution and nowadays they try to parse that with various levels of scrutiny activities some less so and his point was that's not what the constitution says so he's really going back to fundamentals and up lobbying them in each case that comes forward. one of the cases we didn't dwell upon if you want to read an interesting dissent by john paul stevens and i assure you will remember the case is, the case of nancy verses the department of health this is a right-to-die case she had been injured in an automobile accident and her
liberties were given to us by a creator. was not to create them. i don't know how far he would go on the creator aspect but otherwise i would agree with that. i think as he says he's in the business of judging and when you are facing a court doctrine of cases that cover the gamut you have to have a basis of principle and what we try to do because we are writing for a broad audience is to draw off some of those cases those kind of things for example one of his most famous remarks there is only...
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people do and they use their minds. and you're talking about a war where machines to fight and people don't. and they don't use their minds. >> and on that note i think we want to thank these heroes, both for the truth and for the taxpayer, the three you spend your lives were. i want to invite the audience to thank all of you for all of your life work. [applause] [applause] >> you can download a pdf version of the pentagon's labyrinth for free through the center for defense information's website. go to cdi.org. >> booktv is covered over 9000 nonfiction authors and books since 1989 when it all began with book notes, c-span's original hour-long author interview program. you can watch these programs online at booktv.org. now i'm booktv, kay hymowitz says that males in the '20s and '30s prefer to put off adulthood while women, partially driven by their biological clocks, are as driven as ever. she says this phenomenon has negative implications for our society. this event was hosted by the manhattan institute in new york cit
people do and they use their minds. and you're talking about a war where machines to fight and people don't. and they don't use their minds. >> and on that note i think we want to thank these heroes, both for the truth and for the taxpayer, the three you spend your lives were. i want to invite the audience to thank all of you for all of your life work. [applause] [applause] >> you can download a pdf version of the pentagon's labyrinth for free through the center for defense...
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they give us documents to tell us about arguments in homes, like one -- i guess my absolute all time favorite, maine of all places, a rather energetic debate over the constitution in which women were full participants, indeed one of them provoked the argument. women weren't supposed to be interested in politics. yeah. we know better. how could they not? this was the issue of the year. americans, regardless of gender, understood the future would depend on whatever decision was drawn. they would go into the towns and collected the records of towns in massachusetts and connecticut, and what they did about the constitution. these were not pro forma. there's one town in western massachusetts that had, if you can believe this, four informational meetings before they came together to see what that it thought. and they said, it's no good, as proposed. they also went into the streets. they tell us about a wonderful fracas. you can call it a brawl. in albany new york. it started when a group -- they called themselves that in upstate new york -- celebrated the 4th of july in 1788 by burping a c
they give us documents to tell us about arguments in homes, like one -- i guess my absolute all time favorite, maine of all places, a rather energetic debate over the constitution in which women were full participants, indeed one of them provoked the argument. women weren't supposed to be interested in politics. yeah. we know better. how could they not? this was the issue of the year. americans, regardless of gender, understood the future would depend on whatever decision was drawn. they would...
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economy and are making us poorer as a result. number two, public employee unions are responsible for the bankrupting of virtually every state and local government in america. [applause] >> order in the court, please. >> number three, public employee unions are guilty of causing one of the most -- greatest income inequalities injustices in american history. the injustice and inequality is the inequality of paid between what public employee unions receive an private-sector workers that are comparably skilled. we will provide evidence for you that shows that the average private sector worker in america receives only half of what a public sector employee union gets. we hear from liberals all the time that there is injustice and unfairness in america and i would make the case to you ladies and gentlemen and i think we will show you the evidence that the greatest injustice and the greatest unfairness is this disparity in incomes between what the public sector unions received and the private sector unions. that is something that is caus
economy and are making us poorer as a result. number two, public employee unions are responsible for the bankrupting of virtually every state and local government in america. [applause] >> order in the court, please. >> number three, public employee unions are guilty of causing one of the most -- greatest income inequalities injustices in american history. the injustice and inequality is the inequality of paid between what public employee unions receive an private-sector workers...
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us. and it was tough to be humorous about some of this stuff. >> 1898's the most important democrat in the country was william jennings bryan. since he was anti-imperialist, after you kid your research, did you come out with more respect for him? andal were you influenced by the usa trilogy? >> yeah. um, william jennings bryant was kind of a mixed bag or a mixed windbag as he was known. [laughter] he was very progressive on a lot of things and pretty retro on a bunch of other things. he, unfortunately, came to the anti-imperialist thing fairly late, and his reasons for being anti-imperialist kind of got drowned out in the din of war. one thing about the spanish-american war that's unusual is it was a war that was more popular with young people than old people. the young men were just itching to be, to prove themselves in battle. that was, you know, something thai been hear -- they've been hearing, gramps, and if their fathers were older, talk about the glorious days of the civil war, and
us. and it was tough to be humorous about some of this stuff. >> 1898's the most important democrat in the country was william jennings bryan. since he was anti-imperialist, after you kid your research, did you come out with more respect for him? andal were you influenced by the usa trilogy? >> yeah. um, william jennings bryant was kind of a mixed bag or a mixed windbag as he was known. [laughter] he was very progressive on a lot of things and pretty retro on a bunch of other...
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she used family connections and got a job at the war department. it was a low-level secretarial job and she was a typist and she loaded and was determined to work like a demon to get promoted. as she got herself transferred to the offices of a legendary colonel william wild bill donovan, the newly appointed head of the oss, a mysterious and shadow new intelligence agency. as one review recently noted the cloak and dagger business was like bread and butter to julia. she found the mysterious agency exciting and glamorous and she left her brilliant and eccentric colleagues and she found herself assigned to an experimental research project called the emergency rescue equipment section. she was working with an eminent harvard zoologist. his name was harold coolidge and he was no less than the defendant of thomas jefferson. she was developing a sharp that could be read what pilots who could be down on sea to protect them. they conducted all kind of bizarre experience in designing the rescue jets and julia's responsibility was to go to the fish market ear
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see how retirement distances you from us, the us is now them, and andy is out there. anyway, this kind of tracks the thinking of many people in corporate america and in firms like general electric which brother chris townsend deals with and who continually try to confine us to the past rhetorically at least with their constant repetition and references to legacy contracts and legacy benefits, the latter of which we are now told are no longer affordable anywhere in the country in either of the public or private sector where things are heading and told, those cheese heads got into the act out there in cairo by the lake in wisconsin. bob was just out there, brother mike elk who is probably twittering, a great young labor journalist who just returned from madison. hopefully we'll get reports from bob and mike and anybody else. anybody else out there? david? chris? okay. there's a bunch of out-of-state cheerleaders. it's now called the cheddar revolution. let me say the cheddar revolution is a bit of a boom on book peddling on this particular tour. the folks at hay market
see how retirement distances you from us, the us is now them, and andy is out there. anyway, this kind of tracks the thinking of many people in corporate america and in firms like general electric which brother chris townsend deals with and who continually try to confine us to the past rhetorically at least with their constant repetition and references to legacy contracts and legacy benefits, the latter of which we are now told are no longer affordable anywhere in the country in either of the...
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they used state legislation. they also used their own collective power to establish a new regulatory regime, which i call anti-monopoly. an anti-monopoly to regulatory regime was to promote competition among telegraph companies, among network carriers. the competition persisted for a couple decades until lo and behold the greatest anti-monopolist of the mall, jay gould, got control of the telegraph network in 1881. he was also the most hated finance their the age. it's hard to think of anyone today who is most hated unschooled. the telegraph story that anti-monopoly, rules of the game, political economy leading to what was effectively a duopoly. there were two companies. the business strategy does pursued was business oriented and it was very narrow. and may come as a surprise that western union, which was the main network never aspired to provide access to or mac americans to send information of her longest this. if you want to communicate with someone in california, boston, sent a letter. i was the company poli
they used state legislation. they also used their own collective power to establish a new regulatory regime, which i call anti-monopoly. an anti-monopoly to regulatory regime was to promote competition among telegraph companies, among network carriers. the competition persisted for a couple decades until lo and behold the greatest anti-monopolist of the mall, jay gould, got control of the telegraph network in 1881. he was also the most hated finance their the age. it's hard to think of anyone...
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he used those guns como's submarine skippers did not. they were primarily designed in the beginning, if you get caught on the surface and had a fight your way out of a tight spot you could use guns on the deck. borden would blaze ride into a convoy with the guns going in shooting. they actually sent an entire convoy by themselves during the patrol. well, when they got back to pearl harbor the navy knew that we needed some good news. they made sure that the whole world knew. there were talking about swashbuckling skipper, spent some time with the hollywood folks. that will come back a letter. second patrol was a spectacularly. it's amazing things. they were ordered to pass a little island. they put it on the chart. they had to use an airless from one of the key members. they found him on their and rebel to projected on the wall. drive by and see if there was any enemy activity. well, the cell right into the harbor. the arbour is so shallow that they could actually sealed this well. there were close enough that they could count. they see a
he used those guns como's submarine skippers did not. they were primarily designed in the beginning, if you get caught on the surface and had a fight your way out of a tight spot you could use guns on the deck. borden would blaze ride into a convoy with the guns going in shooting. they actually sent an entire convoy by themselves during the patrol. well, when they got back to pearl harbor the navy knew that we needed some good news. they made sure that the whole world knew. there were talking...
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so please join us and giving them a very warm welcome. [applause] >> thank you for that very kind introduction. i'm delighted to be here as one of the legendary places one hears about all the time but i never visit and i had be to actually give a talk here. let me change my glasses. i'm getting old. >> the book arguably has the weirdest title in the history of economics. people have asked me why 23 things? actually developed on this ny 23 so why in the initial period but one wasn't a big fan of michael jordan. [laughter] you will know michael jordan but actually i'm a very big fan of baseball but i didn't watch basketball, so even i didn't realize that his numbers 23. others went [inaudible] which is called a 23 enigma which claims it exactly how i don't know but that all significant events in the society are somehow connected to the number 23, so that series and there's this movie with jim carrey called the number 23. now i don't know how this works and i never heard of it before people pointed this out to me. and some people had a chari
so please join us and giving them a very warm welcome. [applause] >> thank you for that very kind introduction. i'm delighted to be here as one of the legendary places one hears about all the time but i never visit and i had be to actually give a talk here. let me change my glasses. i'm getting old. >> the book arguably has the weirdest title in the history of economics. people have asked me why 23 things? actually developed on this ny 23 so why in the initial period but one wasn't...
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and any of the other 300 plus cable networks now entertaining us every day. even drink the great recession americans and consuming more on entertainment than they did four years ago. that means more jobs for artists, actors, comedians, directors, producers, documentary filmmakers, video makers, and app developers. and just to give you an example, this -- you may not know what this is. this is one of the most popular apps for the iphone. it is called idea. if you store this into your iphone you can make it look like you're drinking a beer. if you hold up and down, notice how it looks like you are chugging when you turn a torture mouth. this little gadget can save its inventor a very wealthy man. what did he tell his parents you want to be when he grew up? hard to imagine. it's the second thing it demonstrates is that the knowledge economy and its associated affluence tends to reinforce this culture. in this case, the culture dedicated to young men. now, the jobs that are available in the knowledge economy are not just a paycheck. they can be gratifying, fun, a
and any of the other 300 plus cable networks now entertaining us every day. even drink the great recession americans and consuming more on entertainment than they did four years ago. that means more jobs for artists, actors, comedians, directors, producers, documentary filmmakers, video makers, and app developers. and just to give you an example, this -- you may not know what this is. this is one of the most popular apps for the iphone. it is called idea. if you store this into your iphone you...
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the police saw we were imperil, and the police saw us and took us out of safety. there's no police report that this happened. there is no police person. there is no audio of the 400 people coming forward saying they heard it. one person could have been there who was a liberal saying i saw it. nobody saw it. conman carson created such an image that it's not what barney frank said, one person said something, but he created an image he described out of a page from a time machine. those are his words. when i heard his description, and i juxtaposed it with what people said around there like your friends said, it didn't happen. it didn't happen. i was so upset that i offered $100,000, and guess what happened the next day? they shut up. they did not think there was an idiot like me who would take on race, that would -- a white guy, white guys are to sit back and take the racism thing. no, i'm taking this head on for clarence thomas, take this thing head on. this is the battle of my life. >> host: what happened to you during the interview when you sold yourself out becaus
the police saw we were imperil, and the police saw us and took us out of safety. there's no police report that this happened. there is no police person. there is no audio of the 400 people coming forward saying they heard it. one person could have been there who was a liberal saying i saw it. nobody saw it. conman carson created such an image that it's not what barney frank said, one person said something, but he created an image he described out of a page from a time machine. those are his...
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microsoft is using game platforms. >> connect? >> but what i think is interesting as it be said that microsoft is definitely still an influentially credible company that has been so woven into a nice. i mean, i grew up with microsoft word, pc. we forgotten it's even there. do you have written a book about what you called a breathtaking fall from grace. you said it wasn't a longtime microsoft stood by the slogan that bill and i followed at the start. we set the standards. there is no one speaking privately and candidly who would make that claim today. >> i think i was referring to new standards for platforms. i mean, microsoft has an amazing position from the leadership position in d.c. we all carry around -- different kind of mobile devices and no tablet had taken the field, too. there's going to be an incredible battle between different tablets of players coming to. so when this new platforms come down the pipes, to really internalize that in your attack to keep your engine going into new areas. and microsoft has been lagging in
microsoft is using game platforms. >> connect? >> but what i think is interesting as it be said that microsoft is definitely still an influentially credible company that has been so woven into a nice. i mean, i grew up with microsoft word, pc. we forgotten it's even there. do you have written a book about what you called a breathtaking fall from grace. you said it wasn't a longtime microsoft stood by the slogan that bill and i followed at the start. we set the standards. there is no...
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they give us history. they give us creativity. they make us more creative. they are an essential part to have the culture and traditions. they keep us from making mistakes. same mistakes people made before even though we will anyway. often times. i also recommend making time in your reading diet for magazines. this is shameless plug to time. i'm not only saying that because i work for one and subscriptions to it pay my salary, however you do it, digitally or paper and binding, some people still do that, i recommend it. sometimes it seems a luxury anymore to let things settle a little bit before diving 234 and commenting. there was a incident this afternoon where i commented way too fast. magazines allow for more reflection, more digging, a little more context, and, yes, we do offer digital subscriptions to national review. go to nationalreview.com. that commercial is a long way of relaying this. yesterday, i was reading a catholic magazine of sorts. there's reflections and assorted spiritual commentary. yesterday's was on the gospel reading of the day and it
they give us history. they give us creativity. they make us more creative. they are an essential part to have the culture and traditions. they keep us from making mistakes. same mistakes people made before even though we will anyway. often times. i also recommend making time in your reading diet for magazines. this is shameless plug to time. i'm not only saying that because i work for one and subscriptions to it pay my salary, however you do it, digitally or paper and binding, some people still...
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the main 20 that are used across the united states. it is for the state of wisconsin. but it's incredible. in fact, this was right about the time -- this was three or four years after the seminal book by harvard university press, the black book of communist had come out, which documented 100 million dead under communist government. i couldn't find that figure in a single textbook. not one. no figures at all. none whatsoever. 100 million dead, the black book of communist only, only has about 25 million dead for the soviet union. when, in fact, it's probably 60 to 70 million. alexander yacablev, he was tasked with the duty to see how many victims were killed by the communist. he said 60 to 70 million killed under stalin alone. alexander used numbers like that. we know that malnutrition probably killed about 70 million. the number isn't probably 100 million, it's probably 140 million. on the conservative figure, it's at least 100 million. these numbers start to run together. just think about that. take all of the dead in world war ii, which -- and world war i, combine the
the main 20 that are used across the united states. it is for the state of wisconsin. but it's incredible. in fact, this was right about the time -- this was three or four years after the seminal book by harvard university press, the black book of communist had come out, which documented 100 million dead under communist government. i couldn't find that figure in a single textbook. not one. no figures at all. none whatsoever. 100 million dead, the black book of communist only, only has about 25...
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get ahead of us. and we owe it to the opportunity and potential of europe to bring the whole european union into the 21st century and connected. this requires a lot of work, but it's very urgent that we get there. so that's my main concern. posts are very quickly, here in washington, are your mobile device is working? >> guest: my mobile devices work. >> host: is it expensive? >> guest: yeah, of course. >> guest: i haven't had a problem. i must say, and from where i live, is the real thing to not have to go down the road and get a signal. it's nice to get one when he bought one. >> host: james elles has been a member of the parliament since 1984. is also cofounder of the european internet foundation. marietje schaake has been a member of the parliament since 2009 from the netherlands. we appreciate you both coming onto "the communicators." kim hart as always of the "politico," thank you. >> thank you. >> steve early examines the current organizing strategies and structures of many labor unions in the
get ahead of us. and we owe it to the opportunity and potential of europe to bring the whole european union into the 21st century and connected. this requires a lot of work, but it's very urgent that we get there. so that's my main concern. posts are very quickly, here in washington, are your mobile device is working? >> guest: my mobile devices work. >> host: is it expensive? >> guest: yeah, of course. >> guest: i haven't had a problem. i must say, and from where i...
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using the same vernacular your teenager might use in using this type of wargames. the other thing americans are doing now is they are infiltrating many of these militant chat rooms, getting inside, oftentimes doing no more than posing very provocative questions, posing as militants in saying dear brothers why is it that this bombing of a wedding party in amman jordan that killed scores of muslim men, women and children civilians, how does this advance our goal? how does it the advance the goal of osama bin laden again raises questions about and maybe dissuade some of these young militants thinking about carrying out bombings or attacks from deciding whether they want to go through with it or not. the same thing is happening as americans are infiltrating hacking into the cell phone networks of terrorist leaders so they can send out some contradictory or confusing messages to the militants themselves to the point where militants read these messages on their cell phones and go you i think our guy has lost it or going out necessarily want to go along with the program a
using the same vernacular your teenager might use in using this type of wargames. the other thing americans are doing now is they are infiltrating many of these militant chat rooms, getting inside, oftentimes doing no more than posing very provocative questions, posing as militants in saying dear brothers why is it that this bombing of a wedding party in amman jordan that killed scores of muslim men, women and children civilians, how does this advance our goal? how does it the advance the goal...
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is about us come, about me about all of us and what we can accomplish by fighting together. so i think the response around the country to the to terrible change to win rift at the top, 2000 by people worried about what happened. people on those levels seem to have more sense. they value long-term relationship in solitary charger mechanism was developed and relatively little of the expected or feared disruption of labor unity regardless of what the people did here. for good or worse in the area of working together not. let's hear from some other folks. any other topics that are significant? >> i am from the newspaper guild, one of the two labor journalist here in the audience today. it struck me and it struck me for many years that there is one thing that the movement really lacks. we are spread all over the lot. we get involved in every single cause no demand and we don't have a unifying theme. and much as i hate to "makem, rich trumka on pbs the other night actually articulated one. he said, you shouldn't have to choose between your life and your job. now, turn that around
is about us come, about me about all of us and what we can accomplish by fighting together. so i think the response around the country to the to terrible change to win rift at the top, 2000 by people worried about what happened. people on those levels seem to have more sense. they value long-term relationship in solitary charger mechanism was developed and relatively little of the expected or feared disruption of labor unity regardless of what the people did here. for good or worse in the area...
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he uses a particular community. so it's not just what he prints himself, but his tremendously diffuse network. >> host: so money was localized at the timing? >> well, it was. you could have different types of currency in different communities n. the colonial period you could have different currencies passing in a single kohl gnu. so you didn't need to be in montana, for instance, to spend massachusetts money. >> host: if somebody was traveling from philadelphia to new york city, what would they bring with them? >> guest: well, it depends. in the early republic period what you'd want to do was buy city paper which was bank notes printed by reputable banks in the east, places like boston, new york and philadelphia. but if you were traveling particularly to the west, you would see quite a bit of what's called western paper which was passed at a discount. it was shaved a certain percentage based on the reputation of the bank that issued it. so you'd want to have, essentially, the strongest paper currency with you, and y
he uses a particular community. so it's not just what he prints himself, but his tremendously diffuse network. >> host: so money was localized at the timing? >> well, it was. you could have different types of currency in different communities n. the colonial period you could have different currencies passing in a single kohl gnu. so you didn't need to be in montana, for instance, to spend massachusetts money. >> host: if somebody was traveling from philadelphia to new york...
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my mother brought us on vacation. i was 11 years old after fifth grade and my mother had to go north to the lake and go to scout camps and things like that. our mom wanted us to go to washington d.c. every summer because she's so believed in this country and everything about it and loved history. we spend our summer is going to the national archives reading documents of the founding fathers and traveling through the smithsonian institute and going to the different museums and every time we came here we had to meet two senators and a congressman. i was in the apple building and started looking at all these statues in the hall and reading the inscription's. i got separated from my mom and my sisters and my cousin. it felt like ours and was probably just 20 minutes. i was wondering all over the capitol building looking for my family and can't find them. i start to cry. these elevated doors open. i walk into the elevator. i don't see the sign on the elevator. they close. there's one man in the back of the elevator and he
my mother brought us on vacation. i was 11 years old after fifth grade and my mother had to go north to the lake and go to scout camps and things like that. our mom wanted us to go to washington d.c. every summer because she's so believed in this country and everything about it and loved history. we spend our summer is going to the national archives reading documents of the founding fathers and traveling through the smithsonian institute and going to the different museums and every time we came...
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tell us about the west point football game. fast-forwastand to 1912. >> well known as a college athlete? >> by this plenty is. that h11. the long story, have to read the book. he leaves tu -- t now. goes to play minor league baseball. never intending to go back, once in to breve leagues. baseball was the only organized ltiort that you could mve career at. he did not do that well in baseball. persns ded to come back innds91s timgger, heavier, in his 20's. he hits the ground running. the foo call seabecnndsnly1- that hoft and the track and field season of 1912, the olympics in the in phenomenal. all over the newspaper and the headlines. bec by the time that west pintet thing is does will be is sort of the talk of the nation. in fact west point illustrated. ree08. had there been a heisman trophy, for example, in that h ga andn2 l im would probably have won it both years. phenomenal. bec it is a higus y symbolic thg for many reabecns. obviously west point is an army in that team and in that class of cf generals. >> omar bradley. wa
tell us about the west point football game. fast-forwastand to 1912. >> well known as a college athlete? >> by this plenty is. that h11. the long story, have to read the book. he leaves tu -- t now. goes to play minor league baseball. never intending to go back, once in to breve leagues. baseball was the only organized ltiort that you could mve career at. he did not do that well in baseball. persns ded to come back innds91s timgger, heavier, in his 20's. he hits the ground running....
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it brings the story down to earth, gives us models, maybe inspiration, and even hope. thank you. [applause] .. >> was there any change in the original language, or was everything eventually ratified in its spirity? -- entirety in. >> she asked if there's any change in the language of the constitution. you know, it's a wonderful question pause that's precisely what the issue was. when we talk about federalist and antifederalist, we get locked into dichotomies. they're people for and against the constitution. that really wasn't the issue. one of the things that made this so devisive is the federalists with no authority whatsoever, of course, the federal convention had no authority to make a new government or say it should be ratified or any of that. they said there could be no amendments, you know? that take it or leave it. take it as we wrote it. don't change it, just ratify it. if you want to make changes, well, we've got a procedure in article v for amendments. george mason said, wait a minute, we have met in secret. the public doesn't know what we're doing. we've had no feedbac
it brings the story down to earth, gives us models, maybe inspiration, and even hope. thank you. [applause] .. >> was there any change in the original language, or was everything eventually ratified in its spirity? -- entirety in. >> she asked if there's any change in the language of the constitution. you know, it's a wonderful question pause that's precisely what the issue was. when we talk about federalist and antifederalist, we get locked into dichotomies. they're people for and...
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unlike racism is why you guys use. this is where in america this is un-american where you are guilty and you don't even have the ability to prove it. >> host: are you trying to convey to the listeners who are like i am record with this discussion but it's only black men that played the race game, played the cards and just tell these lies? they don't have a monopoly on them? >> guest: bill largest sits back and enjoys it and plays off of it because mcnuggets white males as shelby steele will talk to you about it is played like the black community, the liberal black community. and the people who will tell you about this the most are black conservatives. they say yaki and guess what we are, an uncle tom. if liberty is in their place. >> host: here's what people do not understand in this discussion. people mahdi and tell great lawyers, many people hurt sometimes and many people die. why would a media like nbc, cbs, "the new york times," the "the washington times," "l.a. times," does a today, why would they be complicity an
unlike racism is why you guys use. this is where in america this is un-american where you are guilty and you don't even have the ability to prove it. >> host: are you trying to convey to the listeners who are like i am record with this discussion but it's only black men that played the race game, played the cards and just tell these lies? they don't have a monopoly on them? >> guest: bill largest sits back and enjoys it and plays off of it because mcnuggets white males as shelby...
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if you give us a minute to get that set up, i'm sure he wouldn't mind doing signing for us here tonight. >> this event was hosted by busboys and poets in washington d.c. for more information visit busboys and poets.com. >> dr. bush, how did the juvenile justice system that started in this country? >> well, got started right around the turn of the 20th century, the first juvenile court of law was passed in illinois in 1899, establishing a separate corporate juvenile and along with that came a separate institution for juvenile others. the system was so popular that it was copied by almost every other state in the union in 1820s. texas adapted juvenile court bought in 1907. >> and you write the juvenile justice system has failed in this country. why do you think it is failed? >> it has failed to live up to its founding promise, which was basically that it would establish a more protective system for youthful offenders. the juvenile justice system was founded on the concept that children were different from adult offenders, less responsible for their offenses and they were more capable of b
if you give us a minute to get that set up, i'm sure he wouldn't mind doing signing for us here tonight. >> this event was hosted by busboys and poets in washington d.c. for more information visit busboys and poets.com. >> dr. bush, how did the juvenile justice system that started in this country? >> well, got started right around the turn of the 20th century, the first juvenile court of law was passed in illinois in 1899, establishing a separate corporate juvenile and along...
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they use their work to convince us of particular goals. that doesn't stop them from trying even when they feel. the creator of friends and we're going to play this clip but there was cursing in it, we couldn't believe it. she told me about one of her favorite episodes and television. lesbian wedding episode in the first season of friends. she said she was cast as a quote unquote a few to the right. people in hollywood feel the need to slap us across the face but some of that springs from deal. these are very, very rich people. they are also so they have to live with themselves. the way they did it is by looking across america and saying okay, you are a bunch of hapless, i know i'm making money, but i'm going to smack you across the face and remind you how evil you are. that's why we see so much shocked by. they don't have good about themselves and less than just soccer summit in the nose. only a couple problems, first what do we turn the channel to? the tv industry is widely vertically integrated. basically six companies control everything
they use their work to convince us of particular goals. that doesn't stop them from trying even when they feel. the creator of friends and we're going to play this clip but there was cursing in it, we couldn't believe it. she told me about one of her favorite episodes and television. lesbian wedding episode in the first season of friends. she said she was cast as a quote unquote a few to the right. people in hollywood feel the need to slap us across the face but some of that springs from deal....
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let us start with property. is it true that this article in the declaration of human rights was brought forward and supported by the market economy. the market economy cannot work if property is not protected and at the same time market economy into a speculative finance and is also dangerous to property. it must be considered as something that gives you responsibility for the property of others. you should be made secure in your property only if that property is not extended beyond the normal reach of the proprietor. it is true that when we drafted the universal declaration, countries which worked on market economy and capitalism were needed to ascertain their views against those who already lived at that time in administered economy is because they were not present in the rule. now i think the feeding has grown. that not only communism is dead after the war and the fall of the berlin wall, but socialism is also in danger because maybe to administer the economy and we must protect the freedom of the market. the
let us start with property. is it true that this article in the declaration of human rights was brought forward and supported by the market economy. the market economy cannot work if property is not protected and at the same time market economy into a speculative finance and is also dangerous to property. it must be considered as something that gives you responsibility for the property of others. you should be made secure in your property only if that property is not extended beyond the normal...
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we had two things going for us. even though we were not to plea convinced there would be the war in the pacific, we still had some folks in the navy who had begun development of a new class of submarines. and oddly enough have more comforts a lot of people think of the german u-boats and those were extraordinarily effective by the machine but the new class of submarines that were on the drawing board in the 1930's were far superior even than the u-boats. the first was the class. they could buy the brand go further and have much more by power than anybody that had come along. the one thing we didn't have when the war broke out in december of 1941 was the submarine skippers who could fight the kind of war that we needed to fight which gets the japanese into the pacific. it's not their fault. they've been taught a whole different way to run the submarines but once the unrestricted warfare was declared, thankfully we had some officers who stepped to the forefront, and adopted the submarines and were able to take that re
we had two things going for us. even though we were not to plea convinced there would be the war in the pacific, we still had some folks in the navy who had begun development of a new class of submarines. and oddly enough have more comforts a lot of people think of the german u-boats and those were extraordinarily effective by the machine but the new class of submarines that were on the drawing board in the 1930's were far superior even than the u-boats. the first was the class. they could buy...
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don't of record curriculum to read this is something colombia and us have been quite a essentially it's two years and one of the course is the civilization sequence. the students can opt to to do a year of american civilization and european civilization. so one quarter we deutsch china and another quarter we deutsch japan and the third quarter we do vietnam and that's what about the war it's about the larger sweep of the history going back for 2500 b.c.. estimate of vietnam at war. marc philip bradley of the university of chicago. >> what are you reading this summer? book tv wants to know. it's been a book by john kenneth galbraith called the good society. it's a small book with tremendous was dumb for today. i'm reading an encyclopedia of conservatism by jeffrey nelson and a book called a viral spiral and a recent best seller which i haven't gotten around to reading black swan. islamic visit booktv.org to see this and other summer reading lists. islamic richard north patterson's newest novel discusses the threat of a nuclear attack on israel by terrorists and the possibility of another
don't of record curriculum to read this is something colombia and us have been quite a essentially it's two years and one of the course is the civilization sequence. the students can opt to to do a year of american civilization and european civilization. so one quarter we deutsch china and another quarter we deutsch japan and the third quarter we do vietnam and that's what about the war it's about the larger sweep of the history going back for 2500 b.c.. estimate of vietnam at war. marc philip...
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come with us, they lead us down the hallway. they take seats way up here in the committee. they have us sit down below them. they are in the circus. all that we were missing were the lines. we spent the next two of three hours, you shouldn't have brought it, we are going to ruin the case. everybody else is talking. henry looked at me like say something. i try to make the pitch. i said, senators, i have to tell you something. i said tomorrow for only the second time in american history, the chief justice of the united states is going to leave his court, going to come into your chamber, and is going to administer an oath to 100 united states senators to do impartial justice. tomorrow when the chief gives you that vote in 20,000 courthouses around the country, judges are going to be administering the exact same oath to untold thousands of jurors. and if they can't take the oath, and if they won't take the oath, they can't sit as jurors. when i think about tomorrow, how many single mom works at star bucks, working in gas stations, who would rather be somewhere else and do somet
come with us, they lead us down the hallway. they take seats way up here in the committee. they have us sit down below them. they are in the circus. all that we were missing were the lines. we spent the next two of three hours, you shouldn't have brought it, we are going to ruin the case. everybody else is talking. henry looked at me like say something. i try to make the pitch. i said, senators, i have to tell you something. i said tomorrow for only the second time in american history, the...
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i probably don't use, end up using 0 or 90% of the books i read. but that's what gets you to the good books. just for a small example, the books i read on group think and riots and financial panics and so on and so forth. i read all or part of probably a dozen such books. um, but gust to have he -- gustav he bonn was really, there it is. it rings true, it is stated so clearly. it was, i mean, fried, hitler and mussolini acknowledged gustav as the father and the expert on group think. and so why bother quoting the other ones? if toward the end i was actually cutting some quotes out of some of the other books because i sort of felt like, well, maybe i should put in some other authors on this. but then i realized you're just stuffing them in pointlessly. gustav says it all. so you have to read a lot of books to know which ones you're going to end up needing or using or even what the direction of the book is. but it's so much fun, and you learn so much. and especially when you can talk to your friends about your theories on things and argue with them a
i probably don't use, end up using 0 or 90% of the books i read. but that's what gets you to the good books. just for a small example, the books i read on group think and riots and financial panics and so on and so forth. i read all or part of probably a dozen such books. um, but gust to have he -- gustav he bonn was really, there it is. it rings true, it is stated so clearly. it was, i mean, fried, hitler and mussolini acknowledged gustav as the father and the expert on group think. and so why...
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so thank you so much for joining us and stimulating us and enriching all of us. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] thank you, jerry. >> this afternoon watch three programs about the lives of three first ladies of the united states. at 2:15 eastern myra gutin details the life of the 41st first lady, barbara bush. and then at 3 barbara perry provides a glimpse into the life of jacqueline kennedy. at 4 p.m. eastern, a look at eleanor roosevelt by author maureen beasley. >> in about an hour, we're going to cover several thousand years of world history and touch every part of the planet. are you to roll? you ready to go on the journey? and this is a journey that as we touch all these places did actually start from a family -- two family stories. and so if we could look at the world map, marina and i were in jerusalem in i reel visiting -- in israel visiting with my family. and i learned, i asked about the story of one of my aunts, a mysterious aunt of mine, a non-jewish woman who had married into our jewish family. and i wondered about her, what's the story about her
so thank you so much for joining us and stimulating us and enriching all of us. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] thank you, jerry. >> this afternoon watch three programs about the lives of three first ladies of the united states. at 2:15 eastern myra gutin details the life of the 41st first lady, barbara bush. and then at 3 barbara perry provides a glimpse into the life of jacqueline kennedy. at 4 p.m. eastern, a look at eleanor roosevelt by author maureen beasley. >> in...
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and so for many things they just didn't tell us about it. they sheltered us. when, for example, they opened the first fast food place, the jack's hamburgers, rather than allow us to know that they did not serve black people, rather than have us go to a side window when they did serve them, they just kept us at home, and they always told us that it was about money, that they didn't have the money to do these things. and, um, so in a real way we did not know many of the barriers that existed out there. it was a real gift and a lot -- in a lot of ways not knowing that the barriers were there. there were no imaginary barriers in our minds saying we can't do this because of those people or this person or whatever. we really grew up thinking that we could do anything that we wanted. we could be anyone that we wanted to be. this was stressed a lot in my elementary school and my high school. i guess they felt we would find out soon enough what things were possible and what things weren't. but they really did a tremendous job of preparing us so that if opportunities ca
and so for many things they just didn't tell us about it. they sheltered us. when, for example, they opened the first fast food place, the jack's hamburgers, rather than allow us to know that they did not serve black people, rather than have us go to a side window when they did serve them, they just kept us at home, and they always told us that it was about money, that they didn't have the money to do these things. and, um, so in a real way we did not know many of the barriers that existed out...
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joining us now to discuss this issue is sarah weinman. if you can give us a brief overview of what the goggle book set leapt was and who were parties involved? >> guest: sure. it arose from an original lawsuit filed by the association of american publishers and the authors guild. they objected to the fact that in their view, google was scanning primarily out of print and orphaned works, whose copyright stay us was not entirely known, and they felt this wholesale scanning was infringement and they didn't like that, so they sued. as it made its way through the courts, however, the parties all decided to create what is known as the google book settlement, and what that would entail is coming up with some means of giving copyright holders some monetary value for their work, and what they elected to do is what's known as an opt out process where if authors did not want their works to be scanned by google, they could write in and opt out, and those who did have their works scanned by google would get $60 per work. as it made its way through the
joining us now to discuss this issue is sarah weinman. if you can give us a brief overview of what the goggle book set leapt was and who were parties involved? >> guest: sure. it arose from an original lawsuit filed by the association of american publishers and the authors guild. they objected to the fact that in their view, google was scanning primarily out of print and orphaned works, whose copyright stay us was not entirely known, and they felt this wholesale scanning was infringement...
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bush did not use drones. the larger framework is we are seeing expanding of the national security state. there is little marginal attempt to cut the defense budget which shouldn't be dismissed because it is an opening to look at that hard. but it is the expansion -- i don't love the word but the empire. bases grow and you have africa, nato is an american instrument. should have been abolished after the cold war. instead we are embroiled not just in libya which is very dangerous on a number of grounds because it violated the u.n. security resolution almost immediately. i am for the u n. i think that resolution was an important one. but it has the potential to diminish and attack and threaten the un and changes the narrative in these extraordinary events where you have a sense of people making their own history and the west is back in their, the overarching thing in my mind which president obama may not have had the courage to do for a variety of reasons, there is always fear of another attack and what that mea
bush did not use drones. the larger framework is we are seeing expanding of the national security state. there is little marginal attempt to cut the defense budget which shouldn't be dismissed because it is an opening to look at that hard. but it is the expansion -- i don't love the word but the empire. bases grow and you have africa, nato is an american instrument. should have been abolished after the cold war. instead we are embroiled not just in libya which is very dangerous on a number of...
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it was very useful as a lawyer. i learned interviewing skills. i learned more about linear thinking, which is plotting. i learned how to take a complex set of messy facts and make them coherent a narrative which might be persuasive to a judge or jury. i learned a lot about human psychology and your clients will tell you the damnest things. and so -- and i also learned to write. there's a theory that legal writing is nonsense with dependent clauses that will put you to sleep that will put it to sleep. as a lawyer you're writing to america's tired and cynical audiences and you want to make it concise, and persuasive and you want to grab them with the -- with the nub of your presentation on page 1. so it's all good. the difference is that -- i mean, a lawyer is kind of a inbox job and you have an inbox and it's somebody's problem and you go about the job of fixing it. but as a writer you have self-assigned work. you get to decide what to care about. you get to decide how to spend your time. and the most wonderful thing about the writing career for m
it was very useful as a lawyer. i learned interviewing skills. i learned more about linear thinking, which is plotting. i learned how to take a complex set of messy facts and make them coherent a narrative which might be persuasive to a judge or jury. i learned a lot about human psychology and your clients will tell you the damnest things. and so -- and i also learned to write. there's a theory that legal writing is nonsense with dependent clauses that will put you to sleep that will put it to...
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can you hear us all right? in her foreword to this book, caroline said the gathering of the most pressing people you could ever hope to meet. thank you for these remarkable interviews which we can hear as well as read. we are privileged to attend a gathering of fascinating people of the past, people ranging from edmund burke to onion work. and at the center of this gathering is the family living in a home that is famously not been welcoming to its inhabitants, been likened to prison. mike, i want to start with you. you studied many presidencies, franklin roosevelt, lyndon johnson. were you struck by how may times the word happy came up in these conversations? >> i was, in something, yeah, she's nothing if not frank throughout these interviews. and one thing she says more than once is that when the husband was elected in 1960 she had a novel reaction, very unlike most incoming first lady's, she was terrified and she was depressed. partly because she just given birth, and partly because she thought it would wreck
can you hear us all right? in her foreword to this book, caroline said the gathering of the most pressing people you could ever hope to meet. thank you for these remarkable interviews which we can hear as well as read. we are privileged to attend a gathering of fascinating people of the past, people ranging from edmund burke to onion work. and at the center of this gathering is the family living in a home that is famously not been welcoming to its inhabitants, been likened to prison. mike, i...